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[zorba990]

Out of curiosity I went looking to see if I could find anything on the resonant frequency of Fullerenes.

http://iitr-in.acade...ullerene_family

They are in the THz range, so just wondering if this is an issue with rats loaded with C60 going through the new airport scanners?
(Or even standing beside it when 'opting out' while someone else is being scanned).

Don't want to see anyone spontaneously combust or anything...

[niner]

Out of curiosity I went looking to see if I could find anything on the resonant frequency of Fullerenes.

http://iitr-in.acade...ullerene_family

They are in the THz range, so just wondering if this is an issue with rats loaded with C60 going through the new airport scanners?
(Or even standing beside it when 'opting out' while someone else is being scanned).

Don't want to see anyone spontaneously combust or anything...

Not to worry. Although THz sounds scary high, it's actually in the infrared, and is very low energy. Those airport scanners are using way higher frequencies (hundreds of PetaHz) with energies high enough to knock electrons out of atoms. The C60 might be helpful in that case...

[Junk Master]

Whew! I had a vision of being strip searched and trying to explain I wasn't a "biobomb,"even though my whole body glowed.

[zorba990]

Wikipedia actually says the frequency of the new scanners is just below the Thz range (which makes more sense why they get called T-Ray scanners). So it's possible the frequencies might have some harmonics that would hit in the Thz range but it doesn't look like its set directly in the range that would hit fullerenes. I was more concerned with vibrating every cell embrace in the body and rupturing cells, etc.

http://en.wikipedia....er_wave_scanner

[niner]

Wikipedia actually says the frequency of the new scanners is just below the Thz range (which makes more sense why they get called T-Ray scanners). So it's possible the frequencies might have some harmonics that would hit in the Thz range but it doesn't look like its set directly in the range that would hit fullerenes. I was more concerned with vibrating every cell embrace in the body and rupturing cells, etc.

http://en.wikipedia....er_wave_scanner

That's a good thing for travelers who don't want any more Xrays than they have to get, not that the backscatter xray machines are all that bad- they're very low intensity. So anyway, if they were able to to hit you with that frequency of IR, they would also excite most of the other molecules in your body, since that's right in the range where most organic molecules have vibrational modes. If the intensity of the radiation were high enough, you'd feel warmth from it. It's the same thing that would happen if you stood in front of a fireplace or a heater, or outside in the sun. IR radiation would excite various rotational and vibrational modes, which would quickly dissipate through your body as increased molecular motion, which you would feel as heat.